Journalism and indigenous public spheres

Journalism has played—and continues to play— a crucial role in 'imagining' indigenous people and their affairs for most non-indigenous over racism of the colonial press, institutionalised racism is manifested in the sytematic omission of indigenous voices in the news media. Indigenous sources make up a fraction—between one fifth to one third— of all sources used by journalists in stories about indigenous affairs. This alarming statistic has remained unchanged in Australian journalism for the past 20 years and is a prominant feature of news coverage of Native people in the United States and Canada (Weston, 1996;Meadows, 2001). Adam (1993) reminds us that journalism is 'a form of expression that is an invention. It is a creation—a product of the Imagination—in both an individual and a cultural sense.

Media Usage in Post-Secondary Education and Implications for Teaching and Learning

The Web 2.0 has permeated academic life. The use of online information services in post-secondary education has led to dramatic changes in faculty teaching methods as well as in the learning and study behavior of students. At the same time, traditional information media, such as textbooks and printed handouts, still form the basic pillars of teaching and learning. This paper reports the results of a survey about media usage in teaching and learning conducted with Western University students and instructors, highlighting trends in the usage of new and traditional media in higher education by instructors and students. In addition, the survey comprises part of an international research program in which 20 universities from 10 countries are currently participating. Further, the study will hopefully become a part of the ongoing discussion of practices and policies that purport to advance the effective use of media in teaching and learning

Adjusting NRCS Curve Number for Rainfall Durations Less Than 24 Hours

2014 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Informing Strategic Water Planning to Address Natural Resource, Community and Economic Challenge

Mathematical Model for Water Quality in Streams Impacted by Point and Nonpoint Source Pollution

Modeling the impacts of stormwater runoff on small streams, requires that the prediction model has the capability of simulating the behavior of the hydrologic and water quality components of the stream system. Development of such a model involves coupling the equations for pollutant transport during unsteady flow with the appropriate flood routing equations. The decision on which equations to choose requires a full understanding of the pollutant transport and hydrograph dispersion processes. This research was undertaken to develop a rigorous theoretical evaluation of the pollutant transport and hydrograph dispersion processes during unsteady flow, and to recommend a suitable model for simulating the impact of stormwater on small streams. It was determined that the one dimensional convective - dispersive equation for tracers (pollutants) coupled with a form of the diffusive wave model for unsteady streamflow would provide the basis for a simulation model that is both simple and consistent with the principal transport processes. Evaluation of the dynamic terms in the momentum equation yielded general estimators to model parameters and established that the Muskingum routing model is consistent with the modified diffusive wave model developed during this research. The coefficient for hydrograph dispersion was tested on tracer dispersion data and was found to be a reasonable prediction equation for channels with top widths less than 115 feet and bed slopes greater than 1.6 feet per mile. Most small streams satisfy these conditions

Examining the Robustness of the SWAT Distributed Model Using PSO and GLUE Uncertainty Frameworks

2014 S.C. Water Resources Conference - Informing Strategic Water Planning to Address Natural Resource, Community and Economic Challenge

The importance of Se partial pressure in the laser annealing of CuInSe2 electrodeposited precursors

pre-printOne method for producing CuInSe2 (CISe) absorber layers is electrodeposition followed by annealing. Replacing the commonly used furnace annealing step with a laser can reduce annealing times by 2-3 orders of magnitude: from 30 minutes to 1 s. However, laser processing has, to date, not resulted in absorber layers which can form functioning final devices. One reason is due to Se loss during annealing even on these short timescales. We show how this Se loss is reduced by using a background partial pressure of Se (PSe) during annealing. Higher PSe results in increased grain size and drastically increased photoluminescence yield. The introduction of an elevated PSe in the laser annealing chamber enabled the fabrication of the first known CuInSe2 photovoltaic device using electrodeposition followed by laser annealing which gave 1.6% efficiency

Raising the volume : Indigenous voices in news media and policy

This article explores Indigenous contributions to shaping public and policy agendas through their use of the news media. It reports on research conducted for the Australian News Media and Indigenous Policy-making 1988–2008 project that is investigating relationships between the representation of Indigenous peoples in public media and the development of Indigenous affairs policies. Interviews with Indigenous policy advocates, journalists and public servants identified the strategies that have been used by individuals and Indigenous organisations to penetrate policy debates and influence public policy. The article concludes that in the face of a neo-liberal policy agenda amplified through mainstream media, particular Indigenous voices nevertheless have had a significant impact, keeping alive debate about issues such as the importance of bilingual education programs and community involvement in the delivery of primary health care

Intractable or indomitable? How indigenous policy actors issues alive and contested

This is a report on the Australian news media and indigenous policymaking 1988-2008 ARC Discovery Project